Construction worker shoots self with nail gun in Easton

A construction worker accidentally shot himself in the knee with a nailgun while working to build an Easton house. The 42-year-old Norton resident, whose name was not released, was flown to a Boston hospital with serious but non life-threatening injuries .

A construction worker accidentally shot himself in the knee with a nailgun while working to build an Easton house.

The 42-year-old Norton resident, whose name was not released, was flown to a Boston hospital with serious but non life-threatening injuries after the 3:15 p.m. accident at 24 Rockland St., said Fire Capt. James Walsh.

The man had been standing on scaffolding about 20 feet above ground while framing the roof of a new house when the nailgun went off, Walsh said.

The impact “went right through his kneecap, into his right knee,” Walsh said.

Crews used a stokes basket – a stretcher used for high angle rescue – and the aerial ladder to lower the victim to the ground after stabilizing his injury.

A MedFlight helicopter landed outside the Parkview Elementary School on Spooner Street and transported the man to Boston, Walsh said.

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